SURF regeneration awards 2004

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SURF regeneration awards 2004
Celebrating Success Together The SURF Awards are
all about celebrating success, and there was some
substantial celebrations going on at the 6th
Annual Regeneration Awards Dinner in the Radisson
Hotel in Glasgow. Over 170 guests from different
sectors across Scotland gathered to congratulate,
not just the winners on the night, but all 74
projects that had been nominated for this years
competition. Deputy Minister, Johann Lamont,
who presented the awards, warmly commended all
the work that is carried by, and in co-operation
with, local people responding to the needs and
potential solution they see in their own
communities.
Johann Lamont Deputy Minister for Communities
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Successful Scotland After dinner speaker, Alf
Young of the Herald Newspaper, added to the
positive can do atmosphere with a typically
well informed, broad view of the state of the
nation. Alf contended that Scotland and its
economy has done remarkably well in adjusting to
a totally different industrial and technological
climate over the last 5 decades. He proposed
that Scotland has survived some of the most
severe shocks to its economic and social systems
and, despite some very badly judged
interventions, is in a good position to move
forward from a strong educational and
entrepreneurial standpoint.
Alf Young Political Editor, The Herald
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Having thanked the panel of independent judges
SURF Chief Executive, Andy Milne went on to
announce the winning and highly commended entries
in the 3 categories of People, Place and
Partnership. This year the panel also decided to
present a special award for Inspirational
Leadership to a new project that seems to be
showing an exciting new way of supporting
regeneration.
Andy Milne, SURF Chief Executive And the
winners are
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Based in Grangemouth and established in 1995, the
Linked Work And Training Trust provides a work
based, professional training programme that
offers local people the opportunity to work in
regeneration and community development agencies
in their own area and simultaneously train them
to degree level in Community Learning and
Development. Working in closely with Glasgow
University and other partners, it has an
excellent record of retention and success with 22
of the 24 students recruited to the course having
graduated and secured relevant employment. The
LWTT model is an outstanding example of capacity
building and is assisting other communities
across Scotland to develop their own local
provision, based on the same approach. The Trust
is now also adopting its successful model for
communities of interest.
People category - Highly Commended Linked Work
Training Trust Central
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People category - Highly Commended Linked Work
Training Trust Central
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Deal Me In is a partnership project between
Renfrewshire Council and Job Centre Plus to
provide individually tailored, client led,
training and work experience with a view to
increasing access to employment opportunities
within the local authority. It is an excellent
example of a public sector agency using awareness
of its own role as a vehicle of regeneration to
create accessible and relevant employment
opportunities within its own departments for
local people. The panel chose to highlight this
project because they feel regeneration outcomes
can be significantly enhanced by all partner
agencies thinking about how they can provide
employment opportunities through their own
activities to excluded people. The public sector
has a key role as an employer in many deprived
areas where private sector employment
opportunities may be limited. The approach taken
by Deal Me In Renfrewshire has considerable
potential to improve both the lives of people and
the way public services are delivered in
communities across Scotland. The project has now
secured Objective 3 funding to allow it to
further develop its work.
People category - Winner Deal me In
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People category - Winner Deal me In
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Rosshead is a community bounded on one side by
the Glasgow to Balloch railway line and on the
other by the River Leven and so, although
relatively close to Loch Lomond, it is somewhat
isolated from other areas. West Dunbartonshire
Environment Trust has been working with the
Rosshead Tenants Residents association to
initiate the areas environmental regeneration.
The project began in 2001 when Rosshead residents
and the Trust developed an environmental action
plan as part of the areas regeneration.
Children were involved in decision-making from
the beginning, and as a result a teen activity
area which incorporates a BMX area, basketball
training zone, hangout shelter five-a-side
football pitch toddlers play-park and older
childrens play-park have all been built. The
project also created a contemplation garden, with
winding paths, water features and seating areas
on the site of a former block of demolished
flats, and a family garden, with play and
wildlife areas.
Place category - Highly Commended Rosshead
Environmental Action Project
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Place category - Highly Commended Rosshead
Environmental Action Project
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The Hidden Gardens is Scotlands first
internationally designed, environmental,
educational and community resource. It opened in
June 2003 and has attracted over 34,000 visitors
to date. It transformed a 5,000 sq m derelict
industrial brownfield site at the heart of
Glasgows Scottish Asian community into a
tranquil and inspirational haven. The core aims
of the Gardens are to encourage people of all
ages, abilities and cultures to experience a
beautiful new public resource to provide an
imaginative focus for community integration that
is inclusive and culturally sensitive, community
based and generationally aware to provide people
who, for reasons of culture or disability are
less confident of public activity, with an
environment in which they can make a
contribution provide secure interior spaces for
the citys diverse community and support the
aspirations of the surrounding communities and
bring people into a closer relationship with the
natural environment. The Hidden Gardens has made
a special effort to engage positively with the
diversity of the local community from the
planning stage of the project and has been
successful in attracting many local people to
become actively involved the project.
Place category - Winner The Hidden Gardens
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Place category - Winner The Hidden Gardens
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Through creative partnership working on the part
of Enable Glasgow, the Thomas Fortune Work Centre
has relocated from an ex-school building to a
modern purpose built centre in the heart of
Drumchapel. People with learning disabilities
using the centre clearly feel at the heart of the
regeneration strategy for the area, contributing
their skills through a range of contract work
with local employers. There are longer term
plans to open their café to staff working in
other organisations in the area, and through this
enterprise, bring in a wide range of people to
benefit from the centre and consolidate its role
as an important element in local regeneration
efforts.
Partnership category - Highly Commended Thomas
Fortune Work Centre
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Partnership category - Highly Commended Thomas
Fortune Work Centre
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This project is an excellent model of partnership
working. It successfully engages more than 50
groups in the local community in the lifecycle of
waste products in a way that brings real
benefits to local people. Mutually beneficial
partnerships are engaged at all levels of a
creative and productive process. Businesses and
private individuals donate computers and
furniture. The refurbishment process provides
hands-on training and a transition towards
sustainable employment for those who are often
furthest from the labour market. Locally based
organisations such as Barnados ensure that
furniture goes to those in most need, such as
young people moving from homelessness into their
first tenancy. The local college is one of the
projects partners that helps ensure refurbished
computers go into homes where all the family are
encouraged to learn together. It is a great
achievement to bring so many partners together to
make such a dynamic impact on the lives of people
in Renfrewshire.
Partnership category - Winner Recycle
Renfrewshire
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Partnership category - Winner Recycle
Renfrewshire
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Linthouse, part of the Greater Govan SIP area has
suffered adversely over the past 40 years with
the construction of the Clyde Tunnel, decline of
shipbuilding and increasing areas of derelict
land in the area. Linthouse Housing Association
has developed the concept of the Linthouse Urban
Village, and it is seen as integral to the
strategic regeneration of west Govan and
Drumoyne. The LUV project, as it is commonly
known, aims to reinvent the Linthouse area as a
vibrant, bustling community with its own unique
character. It works in partnership with the local
community to develop and realise the potential of
Greater Govan for the people who live or work in,
or visit, the area. The LUV project is giving
locals, visitors and those working in the area
access to a diverse range of truly local shops
with exciting new frontages, a community-learning
zone, a community café with a difference and a
gallery. The motivation and commitment shown by
everyone involved in the project is truly
inspirational.
Special award for leading innovation Linthouse
Urban Village (LUV)
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Special award for leading innovation Linthouse
Urban Village (LUV)
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Sharing and Learning For the second year the
SURF Awards were organised in Partnership with
the Scottish Centre for Regeneration. The SCR
will use the information on the work being done
in these successful projects to add to its
data-base on good practice and to support sharing
of knowledge and ideas through its Seeing is
believing fund.
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